Rare & Early IRISH Temperance Tract - Not in ESTC
Printed Broadside: “The Drunkard's Looking-glass: or, Short View of their present SHAME, and Future MISERY. Published in Love to those Concerned; and Recommended to them as a Tender Caution, to avoid the Same Excess … ”.
Dublin: Printed by and for Samuel Fuller, at the Globe in Meath-Street, 1735.
Price: $2,500.00
About the item
Printed on recto of a single sheet. 1 vols. 15 x 9-1/2 inches. Rare & Early IRISH Temperance Tract - Not in ESTC. Extensively repaired, loss of a few letters at fold. Matted. Bristol B974 (American printing); ESTCW34563 (American printing).
Item #42612
Althought the temperance movement in Ireland and the United States is usually associated with the nineteenth century, it is clear from this passionate 1735 Dublin broadside that the movement had it early advocates. Bristol and ESTC record a (presumed) Philadelphia printing of this same broadside, which was found bound in the New York Historical Society’s copy of Franklin’s Pennsylvania Gazette for 1735-6 -- but ESTC does not record this Dublin printing of 1735. RARE.
